What exclusive rights does the copyright owner have, as defined by 17 U.S.C. 106?
According to Section 106 of U.S.C. 17, a copyright holder is granted the exclusive right ‘to do and to authorize’ the following activities in regards to his/her work: • To reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords. • To prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work. • To distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. • In the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; • In the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly. • In the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission. In addition to t
